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A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm
A practical exposition on the 130th Psalm wherein the nature of the forgiveness of sin is declared, the truth and reality of it asserted, and the case of a soul distressed with the guilt of sin and relieved by a discovery of forgiveness with God is at large discoursed / by John Owen.
London: printed by Robert White for Nathaniel Ponder, 1669
AN EXPOSITION UPON PSALM CXXX. › General Scope of the whole Psalm. › Verse 3 › Section
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
This then is that which we reject, which the soul in this condition doth carefully avoid; so to satisfy it self with its humiliation, as to make that a ground of supportment and consolation, being thereby kept off from exercising faith for forgiveness, For this is,
This then is that which we reject, which the soul in this condition doth carefully avoid; so to satisfie it self with its humiliation, as to make that a ground of supportment and consolation, being thereby kept off from exercising faith for forgiveness, For this is,
First, A fruit of self-righteousness. For a soul to place the spring of its peace or comfort in any thing of its own, is to fall short of Christ, and to take up in self. We must not only be justified, but glory in him also, Isa. 45. 25. Men may make use of the evidence of their graces; but only as mediums to a farther end; not as the rest of the soul in the least. And this deprives mens very humiliations of all Gospel humility. True humility consists more in believing, than in being sensible of sin. That's the souls great self-emptying and abasing; this may consist with an obstinate resolution to scamble for something upon the account of self endeavours.
First, A fruit of self-righteousness. For a soul to place the spring of its peace or comfort in any thing of its own, is to fall short of Christ, and to take up in self. We must not only be justified, but glory in him also, Isa. 45. 25. Men may make use of the evidence of their graces; but only as mediums to a farther end; not as the rest of the soul in the least. And this deprives mens very humiliations of all Gospel humility. True humility consists more in believing, than in being sensible of sin. Thats the souls great self-emptying and abasing; this may consist with an obstinate resolution to scamble for something upon the account of self endeavours.